Mount Munro is, at 715 metres, the highest point on

Cape Barren Island Cape Barren Island, officially truwana / Cape Barren Island, is a island in the Bass Strait, off the north east coast of Tasmania, Australia. It is the second largest island of the Furneaux Group; Flinders Island lies to the north, with th ...

in Bass Strait,

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, Australia. It was probably named after James Munro (c1779-1845), a former convict who had been a sealer and

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in Bass Strait from the early 1820s and lived for more than twenty years on nearby

Preservation Island Preservation Island is a low and undulating granite and calcarenite island, with an area of 207 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Preservation Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait south-west of Cape Barren Isla ...

, where he had several "wives". Cape Barren Island is now an Aboriginal community island.

References

*N. J. B. Plomley & K. A. Henley, ''The Sealers of Bass Strait and the Cape Barren Island Community'', Blubber Head Press, Hobart, 1990.

Munro A Munro () is defined as a mountain in Scotland with a height over , and which is on the Scottish Mountaineering Club (SMC) official list of Munros; there is no explicit topographical prominence requirement. The best known Munro is Ben Nev ...

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